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We received two yoohoo pets and keychain and it is ADORABLE.  We have so many stuffed animals, I wondered if it would be different. It is very unique!   We got the valentines monkey and it is SO soft and cute. If you push its tummy it makes a kissing sound and the heart lights up. It has these fun big eyes and a beautiful pink striped tail.  My daughter LOVES it, she has carried it around all week.   These pets are so unique, you won’t have one like it. 

I love what Aurora World says about the pets and their website, as a homeschooler I love when we get a toy that has an educational aspect to them.  It takes something fun and gives the child a lesson too.

Aurora will introduce many new YooHoo & Friends throughout next year but look for the Beaver, Yellow Tiger, Jaban Rhinoceros and Japanese Macque (five and eight inches) to kick off 2010 introductions. They join the Scarlet Macaw, Barbary Lion, Iberian Lynx, Platypus and a host of other characters.

Even better, YooHoo & Friends teach kids about endangered species from around the globe. There’s a corresponding free, interactive web site (no annoying activation codes required) http://www.yoohoofriends.com that teaches about the animals (on which the YooHoo & Friends line of characters are based) in their natural habitats; as well as a host of games, desktop wallpapers, coloring sheets and more — the web site makes learning about these animals engaging and fun. Each plush piece makes a fun sound when squeezed.

I have one random five inch selection and keychain Visit Aurora World Inc.’s - YooHoo & Friends website.    Leave me a comment letting me know which one you think is the cutest, it will be tough to decide. 

Contest ends Friday Feburary 19th, 2010 at midnight eastern time

This product was given to me free of charge for review purposes.

Boy, have we been getting the snow. Our kids made the cutest minature snowman.

Giveaway is now closed.

We recently received a copy of Disney’s CD for the Princess and the Frog.  We are enjoying the music, it has a really jazzy feel to it and I love jazz music .  Our favorite song hands down is Down in New Orleans.   The music is upbeat and will have your kids dancing for sure!   We love music around here and this is a great one to add to your collection and is especially fun for kids. 

I have one to giveaway to one lucky winner.  Just leave a comment letting me know your favorite Disney Movie or Soundtrack.  Contest ends Tuesday February 16th midnight eastern time.

For additional chances to win

 This post was written for Family Review Network as part of a program for Walt Disney Records, who supplied the CD for review

This giveaway is closed

I have always LOVED Caress.  You can just open a bar of Caress and put in on your sink or tub and voila you have a beautiful scent in your bathroom, I LOVE that!  It smells so good and makes you feel pretty and pampered.  One of the biggest things I do for stress relief is soak in the tub, so I love to have good products in the tub to use.  I was blessed with a package from caress recently with their new evenly gorgeous line.  It smells SO good.  It lathers wonderful and exfoliates your skin.  It left my skin feeling smooth and pampered. 

Caress Evenly Gorgeous body wash and beauty barwith burnt sugar and karate butter to help moisturize, gently exfoliate and reveal even-toned, radiant and silky skin.  Caress® makes skin the ultimate fashion statement with the introduction of the Caress Skinwear Collection®. Caress gives you gorgeous skin – right out of the shower – that you will want to flaunt just like the season’s hottest styles. Now you can shower on your look with Caress body washes and beauty bars for even toned, radiant or silky skin … and have the confidence to show it off!

This review was done as part of a campaign for Caress through Family Review Network.  All opinions are 100% mine

I have always loved Kathy Peel. She is a great author who teaches women about being family mangers of their homes. If we look at our home like we would if we were in the workplace we could start thinking about areas that need to be managed effectively to keep everything running smoothly but we often think of it just as housecleaning,etc and we don’t treat it like a business and often we struggle with areas of homemaking because of it. So I was so excited when I had the chance to review her new book called, “The Busy Couple’s Guide to Sharing the Work and the Joy”.

This is an excellent book to read with your spouse if you like to read books together. My husband and I have started it and we are really enjoying it. It talks about topics that effect family life on the daily basis. She talks about ways you can help one another, meal ideas, how to keep you family strong in faith and ways to stay connected as a couple even when life throws you curves or you don’t have the most convienient schedules. The husband even adds a mans point of view at the end of each chapter. I LOVE the example of the couple who was about to give up on their marriage because their expectations for meal times were so strained and how her and her husband helped this couple make a few changes that helped the husband reconnect. They now have been married 20 years. One of the most fought over areas in a marriage is not feeling appreciated and helped. This book will help so much in that area. It is just full of great ideas. You have to check it out!

Skin MD Natural is sponsoring their very first self-hosted giveaway on their website, just in time for Valentine’s Day.  This would be a wonderful basket to win for this romantic holiday, some great things to pamper yourself with.

The prize basket valued at $100 contains the following items:

• Bottle of Skin MD Natural shielding lotion
• Bottle of Skin MD Natural + SPF 15 shielding lotion
• One pound of See’s dark assorted chocolates
• Pack of Starbucks VIA Ready brew coffee pouches
• Kiss Me coffee mug
• A Cuddly teddy bear
• Lollipop Bouquet

We were honored to receive a basket full of products from exederm.  I have two children that have eczema, one who gets it really bad every winter.  I wanted to take a picture of how bad my sons looked but it was on his bottom so I didn’t.  Every winter he gets it somewhere else, back of the knees, and arms and legs.   The itching drives him crazy.    This was so bad, and then I started using the products given to us and WOW!  I was truly amazed, from the second day using them I saw some improvement, he even told me the itching wasn’t as bad as it had been.  The eczema is now GONE after several weeks using the product.  You have to look into this line if you have a child that is struggling with skin issues.

20% of American children will suffer from eczema or dermatitis at some point and many more with sensitive skin
will have adverse reactions to unnecessary chemicals or allergens found in well known skin care brands.

The new Exederm children’s line was launched in April and was just honored by The National Eczema Association with
5 individual Seal of Acceptance awards in acknowledgement of our ultra sensitive formulations-receiving
a 5 out of 5 rating, the highest rating available.

Our children’s line contains:
No Fragrance
No Color or dyes
No Paraben** Notes
No Lanolin
No Sodium Laureth Sulfate
No Phthalates
No Nut Oils

We use the mildest ingredients available. You can learn more about the products by visiting http://www.Exederm.com and the recent “Seal of Acceptance” by the
National Eczema Association by visiting http://www.easeeczema.org/product_direc … oducts.htm

I have one item from the line of products to giveaway.  Just leave a comment telling me the thing you would like to try the most.

For additional chances to win

“This post was written as part of a program for Family Review Network and Exederm, who provided the products for this review & giveaway”